Author: Jessica

J.L. Powers is the author of The Confessional (Knopf, July 2007) and This Thing Called the Future (Cinco Puntos Press, April 2011). She is also the editor of Labor Pains and Birth Stories: Essays on Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Becoming a Parent (Catalyst Book Press, 2009) and That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone (Cinco Puntos Press, 2012).